The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
MINOR NEWS NOTES.

The most disastrous fire for years
broke out on the 9th inst. in The dry
goods store OF G. 0. Sawyer & Co., in
Hartford, Conn. Many of the hy-
drants In the vicinity were found to
be frozen and owing to this fact the
entire block was consumed. The
total loss will reach S256 600, and
the insurance about 100000.
A fire which began about midnight
o. the 2Sth, destroyed the block occu-
pied by Kalnweiler Il Bros dry goods
house, at Lawrence, Kas., causing g.
loss OF $500. 900; insurance $50, 600.
The Valentine Company's store at
Bellefontaine, Pa, together with a
number OF adjoining buildings was de-
stroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss,
$75, 700 to 100000.
Fire on the night of the 9th de-
stroyed the fve-story brick building
New York. Loss $125 900. A num-
Der OF firemen were hurt by falling
walls.
Thomas Stevens has completed his
tour of the world on a bicycle. He
arrived in San Francisco on the 7th
from Japan, on the steamer City OF
Peking.
The Ohio Southern machine and car
shops at Springfield, O., caught fire
on the Sth, and were totally destroyed.
Loss $4,000.
Mary Harlan, a well-known char
acter OF Louisville, died in hospital
at that place on the 9th, of starva-
ton. She had voluntarily gone with
out food for forty DAYS,
Two freight trains on the Whining
ton 4 Northern Road met on single
track near Wawasset Station, Pa, on
the 9tn. Conductor Henry Huberts
and an unknown man were killed, and
three men were badly hurt.
William +. Spurgeon, confidential
clerk and bookkeeper OF the firm of
Hurst, Purneil & Co., of Baltimore, is
wanted by the police OF that city for
the illegal acquiring of wealth. He
had been III the employ of the firm for
twelve Years, and it is alleged got away
With 100000 belonging to his en-
ployers.
The recently constructed hotel at
Belchertown, Mass the property OF
A, F. Butler, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire on the Sch. The building
cost 100000 and was insured for Sl6,-
0O0.
In 81 saloon fight at Cincinnati on
the night OF the Sth, John Heating
was shot and killed by Dick Hurley.
At Rolph's vinegar factory, in Louis
VILE, KY, on the 7th inst, John Tay-
lor, an employee, fell into a mash-tub
and was so badly scalded that he died
the samed day
Counsel for Fotheringham, the Pa
cltlc express messenger, on the 7th,
moved reduction of his bail, and the
court fixed it at 81 500. It was re.
duced from $4,000.
4 special from San Pedro, Cal, re-
ports the loss at see. OF the American
ship Harvey Mills, with all but three
Of her crew.
The Michigan Legislature convened,
on the 4th, as did also those OF Min
nesota, Pennsylvania, New York, Ne
braska and other states.
The safe at the Blue Island branch
post-othce, Chicago, was burglarized,
on the night OF the Sd. Something
like 81, 200 was stolen.
The breaking of an axle on the
Modoc train on the Poston & Albany
ROAD near opflneneid, MASS, on the
4th inst, caused the wreck OF num-
Der o. cars. Two men we're killed and
seventeen passengers hurt.
The English steamer Cranbrook,
laden with iron, is overdue at New
York, and fears are entertained that
the vessel with her crew OF twenty-five
men, has gone TO the bottom.
Near Streator, H., on the 4th,
freight ran into a coal train One
man was crushed to death and sever
a. others We're slightly hurt.
A. h. Nickens. the most prominent
colored man OF Denver, Col, was mur-
dered and robbed Of $500 on the night
o. the I'd inst. His body was found
IN the shop in the morning, and the
money was found secreted under the
bed OF one Charles Green. who worked
for the murdered man and boarded at
MS house.
Thirty Hcven miners were killed by
nj explosion IL q m.ne At Mons, BEL
gum.
Fal.ty & Has, boot and shoe man